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Rony_Sklar - PeerSpot reviewer
Community Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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RC
Specialist at Bloque de Armas
Jan 3, 2023
Hello peers,  I work at a media company and am researching firewalls. What are the differences between WatchGuard 390 and FortiGate 80F? Which solution do you prefer and why? Thank you for your help.
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AN
Instrutor at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 20, 2022
Hello, The 820 and 850 belong to the family 800 of Palo Alto Firewall.I caught a comparison between both firewalls on the Palo Alto site and I believe it will help with your decision.Regards820 and 850 comparison
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Head of Customer Success at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 3, 2023
Firewall - Appliance Performance Analysis S.No Technical Parameter Watchguard M390 Fortigate 80F 1 IPS Throughput 3.3 Gbps 1.4 Gbps 2 NGFW 5.8 Gbps 1 Gbps 3 Threat Protection 1.47 Gbps 900 Mbps 4 Total no of RJ45 ports 8 GbE Ports 8 GbE Ports 5 Concurrent Sessions 4.5 million 1.5 million 6 New Sessions per second 98000 45000 The WatchGuard M390 NGFW Appliance gives on average 2 + times better performance than the FortiGate 80F
Gulzar C - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Consultant at Gateway information networks
Jan 13, 2023
Hello peers, We are looking for a firewall solution in Fortigate for a software training institution with 2000 students. Each student has one laptop and two mobile phones (maximum). There are four Internet connections, two broadbands, and two leased lines (optical fiber). There is no need for content filtering and application control. We need a solution for load balancing and traffic shaping. ...
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Shibu Babuchandran - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Manager/ Service Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Dec 7, 2022
Hi @Gulzar C ​, Some of the preferred solutions seen in educational institutes are mentioned below: Sophos. Fortinet Fortigate. Juniper SRX Firewall. SonicWall.
CR
Director at REDCO
Dec 7, 2022
Untangle was born in the educational sector, and now it has been acquired by Arista in case you would like to check it out. Any solution is recommended, it all depends on the budget, you can also check pfSense which is free. fatpipeinc.com is a native solution for balancing WAN, VERSA for 8 wan, FortiGate, Sophos, VMware and Cisco are the leaders on Gartner. Greetings 
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RS
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May 30, 2022
Good very informative
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